Well, he used the words (mostly) interchangeably, so they are basically the same creatures.

But yeah, I even wrote a paper on the (in)constant nature in the works of Shelley and Tolkien, while at uni. My MA thesis was called Beauty and the Beast or the Mythology of J.R.R.Tolkien as One Man’s Rebellion Against the Decay of Beauty in the 20th Century, but that was mostly 'cause they forced me to do a literary spin on my idea to write about just the idea of beauty. Those Swedes...

(06-01-2013 01:41 PM)Vera Wrote: Well, he used the words (mostly) interchangeably, so they are basically the same creatures.

But yeah, I even wrote a paper on the (in)constant nature in the works of Shelley and Tolkien, while at uni. My MA thesis was called Beauty and the Beast or the Mythology of J.R.R.Tolkien as One Man’s Rebellion Against the Decay of Beauty in the 20th Century, but that was mostly 'cause they forced me to do a literary spin on my idea to write about just the idea of beauty. Those Swedes...

Damn straight "damn those swedes". I was still religious when I wrote my thesis and writing about Tolkien resulted in the occasional mild religious undertone... enough to make me kinda ashamed of my paper now

Damn straight "damn those swedes". I was still religious when I wrote my thesis and writing about Tolkien resulted in the occasional mild religious undertone... enough to make me kinda ashamed of my paper now

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence" J.R.R. Tolkien

Dont be ashamed. We all did things we regret when we dabbled in mythologies *pats back*